slatey
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015
His eyes were a slatey blue—the color of the sea on a cloudy day.
From Michelangelo's Shoulder by Wetterau, John Moncure
Never pausing, turning only to shoot at wild random, the outlaws had tumbled—stumbled—slid down the slatey slope for the lake.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Doubtless the salt air, which intensifies the color of so many flowers, would brighten its rather slatey blue.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
The angle steepened as we went on very slowly now, but still steadily enough, until we reached the rocks, a frail slatey structure with short perpendicular pitches.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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